{"meta":{"title":"Bernie Sanders public record","reviewedOn":"2026-09-12","scope":"A source-bounded record of Sanders-related campaign committees, organization filings, disclosed personal financial information, official proceedings, selected AI and climate policy, and an attributed career roll-call archive.","reuse":"Freely accessible public-interest reporting. Source-specific statutory and reuse restrictions apply; see https://ai-analytics.org/sanders/methodology/#reuse. Not a donor-prospecting, credit-screening or paid personal-data product. No blanket CC0 license.","limitations":["The financial and policy records are a reviewed selection, not a complete inventory of every receipt, asset, tax year, bill, statement, backer or legal proceeding.","The personal-finance section includes directly acquired calendar-2024 and calendar-2025 Senate annual reports and voluntarily released 2009–2018 tax returns. The newest acquired annual was filed August 13, 2026. Report sections have different reporting cutoffs; later amendments and underlying transactions are not independently established.","Campaign cycles have individual start and end dates; 2026 figures are partial periods. Original and amended reports can change historic totals.","No hidden funding channel, financial motive for AI policy, or undisclosed personal enrichment is established by this collection. Documented civil findings and settlements retain their exact parties, scope and outcomes.","Legislative announcements and introduced proposals are not enacted law. The September 2026 ASI proposal lacks a located filed identifier and full statutory text in this review.","The Voteview archive includes not-voting and present entries and excludes quorum calls and vacated votes; its latest captured vote is August 8, 2026.","Checked-on dates indicate review of a source or index reference, not necessarily acquisition of the full original. accessStatus and source notes identify unacquired documents and third-party mirrors."]},"record":{"id":"sanders-controlai-conjecture-professional-roles","category":"organizations","title":"ControlAI publicly identifies professional ties to Conjecture","date":"2026-09-12","period":"Historic career disclosures in 2025; testimony April 15, 2026; roles page observed September 12, 2026.","status":"Public-source relationship evidence; no misconduct conclusion","summary":"ControlAI identifies Connor Leahy as US Executive Director and Gabriel Alfour as an adviser who co-founded Conjecture and helped establish ControlAI. Miotti’s 2025 written evidence discloses a prior strategy/governance role at Conjecture. Leahy’s 2026 testimony calls his Conjecture CEO role former.","facts":[{"label":"ControlAI current leadership listing","value":"Connor Leahy — US Executive Director","note":"Undated page observed September 12, 2026; exact start date not given."},{"label":"Adviser/cofounder link","value":"Gabriel Alfour — ControlAI adviser; Conjecture cofounder","note":"ControlAI’s own biography says he helped Andrea Miotti found ControlAI."},{"label":"Miotti disclosed former role","value":"Head of Strategy and Governance at Conjecture","note":"September 2025 written evidence to UK Parliament; does not assert current employment."},{"label":"Leahy role-transition evidence","value":"Previously CEO of Conjecture","note":"April 15, 2026 Canadian Senate testimony; directorship and PSC are separate legal roles."},{"label":"Historical commercial objective","value":"Leahy’s retrospective describes a 2024 CoEm product goal","note":"Attributed historical account in his March 2026 essay, not verified efficacy or proof of current operations."},{"label":"Subsequent first-person account","value":"r9-leahy-conjecture-commercial-regulatory-vision"}],"limitations":["Shared professional history or an advisory role does not establish ownership, payments, direction of advocacy, a financial conflict adjudication or misconduct.","The prior Sanders connection is ControlAI’s own report of consultation on the announced ASI framework. This professional overlap does not establish direct Conjecture consultation, payment or influence over a specific bill provision.","The product description and ControlAI’s narrower ASI position are compatible with support for some AI development; calling either organization categorically anti-AI would overstate the sources."],"sourceIds":["src-ai-advocacy-control-about","src-controlai-commercial-miotti-parliament","src-controlai-commercial-leahy-senate","src-controlai-commercial-conjecture-product","src-ai-advocacy-control-consultation","src-r9-leahy-conjecture-retrospective"],"tags":["ai-advocacy","ControlAI","Conjecture","commercial relationships"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-ai-advocacy-control-about","title":"ControlAI description of UK and US organizational forms","publisher":"ControlAI","url":"https://controlai.org/about","documentDate":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"organization disclosure","locator":"Organization introduction; Our Leadership: Connor Leahy; Our Advisors: Gabriel Alfour; Team: Eva Behrens.","sha256":"83a5af93aa274f1e0fcd7cc3b4012271048821d2c32f08164e8ad26346ad8021","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Website describes a UK nonprofit company and a US 501(c)(4); it does not give a US EIN here. 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Observed September 12, 2026; distinguishes company product objective from a ban on all AI."},{"id":"src-ai-advocacy-control-consultation","title":"ControlAI describes consultation on the Sanders–Casar framework","publisher":"ControlAI","url":"https://blog.controlai.org/p/first-bill-introduced-to-ban-superintelligent","documentDate":"2026-09-09","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"organization disclosure","locator":"Sanders and Casar Announce the First US Bill to Ban Superintelligent AI; following three paragraphs","sha256":"08eb86f028282e0fc4acf6588dfaf48a7cc63f9dfb1c2f6d026ef2998498d859","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"First-party claim of consultation, also attributing prior reporting to the Washington Post. The organization explicitly distinguishes its narrower preferred policy. 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